South Africa: Immigrants Protest Ill-Treatment

Johannesburg — Scores of immigrants from five Southern African countries marched to a deportation centre in South Africa this week to protest against the alleged abuse of foreigners on the premises.

A director of rights NGO, the Southern African Women's Institute for Migration Affairs, Joyce Dube, who coordinated the march, told IRIN that about a 100 immigrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Angola had demonstrated at the Lindela Repatriation Centre outside Johannesburg on Thursday.

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